2. Symptoms of this disease usually are Irritability, which ranges 38 to 73%, Apathy, which ranges 34 to 76%, Anxiety, which ranges 34 to 61%, Depressed mood, ranges 33 to 69%, obsessive and compulsive, ranges 10 to 52%, and psychotic, ranges 3 to 11%. It affects coordination throughout the body, it has to do with the brain deteriorating.
3. This disease is detected at the age of 35 to 44, but they can range anywhere from infancy to old age.
4. An estimated 75,000 people carry Huntington's disease.
5. One in ten thousand people have this disease.
6. Huntington's disease has autosomal dominant inheritance, meaning that an affected individual typically inherits one copy of the gene with an expanded trinucleotide repeat from an affected parent. Since penetrance of the mutation is very high, those who have a mutated copy of the gene will have the disease.
7. This disease is autosomal dominant inheritance. This disease is a sex linked chromosome.
8. Four of the several base pairs are repeated many times.
9. There is no treatment or cure for this disease.
10. They will have this disease their whole life because there is no treatment or cure for Huntington's disease.
11. Scientists continue looking for a cure because more Huntington's disease showed up across the population.
12. A parent raising a child with this disease has to remember to have a lot patients.
1. Huntington's Disease
2. Symptoms of this disease usually are Irritability, which ranges 38 to 73%, Apathy, which ranges 34 to 76%, Anxiety, which ranges 34 to 61%, Depressed mood, ranges 33 to 69%, obsessive and compulsive, ranges 10 to 52%, and psychotic, ranges 3 to 11%. It affects coordination throughout the body, it has to do with the brain deteriorating.
3. This disease is detected at the age of 35 to 44, but they can range anywhere from infancy to old age.
4. An estimated 75,000 people carry Huntington's disease.
5. One in ten thousand people have this disease.
6. Huntington's disease has autosomal dominant inheritance, meaning that an affected individual typically inherits one copy of the gene with an expanded trinucleotide repeat from an affected parent. Since penetrance of the mutation is very high, those who have a mutated copy of the gene will have the disease.
7. This disease is autosomal dominant inheritance. This disease is a sex linked chromosome.
8. Four of the several base pairs are repeated many times.
9. There is no treatment or cure for this disease.
10. They will have this disease their whole life because there is no treatment or cure for Huntington's disease.
11. Scientists continue looking for a cure because more Huntington's disease showed up across the population.
12. A parent raising a child with this disease has to remember to have a lot patients.
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